Ukraine's course towards European integration will remain unchanged under any political circumstances, irrespective of who is going to become the next president, Volodymyr Ohryzko, first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, told an international conference on the

Ukraine must participate in efforts to build collective security for Europe, one of the country's presidential candidates and an opposition leader said, according to RIA Novosti. "Ukraine should take an active part in developing a European collective security system," pro-Russian

Private gas distribution companies may be deprive of licenses if they fail to settle their accounts with Naftogaz of Ukraine. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said opening a conference on the supply of natural gas to Ukraine, and payments for it.

World Health Organization (WHO) to provide Ukraine with 5 million vaccine dozes for vaccination against pandemiv flu, as agreed during a meeting of President Viktor Yushchenko with the WHO experts that dealt with the situation of combating the flu epidemic

The President's Energy Security Commissioner Bohdan Sokolovskyi predicts that in the first quarter of 2010 the price of Russian natural gas for Ukraine will be about USD 300 per 1,000 cubic meters, according to UKRINFORM. This price, he said, is